Endemic Surveillance Societies
A look at privacy rankings in the world.
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I think the authors either misunderstand the extent of fourth amendment protections, or have a strange definition of privacy. If you are testing against the government, we actually have rather strong privacy protections by international standards. However there are far fewer protections against private entities, but that shouldn’t be very relevant unless the government uses those entities to bypass protections. (still rare, though at risk of being a real problem)
I certainly don’t think the US deserves to be in the same category as the UK. That said, we are definatly heading in the wrong direction and have allowed far too much surveillance in the name of fighting organized crime and now terrorism.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I would paint the UK black on that map. The Labor government admits 13 million CCTV cameras are in use, but suppliers have delivered nearly 30 million units. From life expectancy studies, it would appear around 22 million cameras should be active.
That is supported by the governments frequent boast they can locate any vehicle in Britain within 30 seconds, and within 100 yards. The camera and computational power to do that is mind boggling.
Usefulness is another matter. When you ask how many crimes have been solved by video recordings the most common answer is none.
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